100-V GaN transistors meet automotive standard
Infineon Technologies AG unveils its first gallium nitride (GaN) transistor family qualified to the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) standard for automotive applications. The new CoolGaN automotive transistor 100-V G1 family, including…
“Flip ON Flop OFF” for 48-VDC systems with high-side switching
My Design Idea (DI), “Flip ON Flop OFF for 48-VDC systems,“ was published and referenced Stephen Woodward’s earlier “Flip ON Flop OFF” circuit. Other DIs published on this subject matter were for voltages less than 15 V, which is the…
Voltage-to-period converter offers high linearity and fast operation
The circuit in Figure 1 converts the input DC voltage into a pulse train. The period of the pulses is proportional to the input voltage with a 50% duty cycle and a nonlinearity error of 0.01%. The maximum conversion time is less than 5 ms.
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A logically correct SoC design isn’t an optimized design
The shift from manual design to AI-driven, physically aware automation of network-on-chip (NoC) design can be compared to the evolution of navigation technology. Early GPS systems revolutionized road travel by automating route planning. These…
AI Ethernet NIC drives trillion-parameter AI workloads
Broadcom Inc. introduces Thor Ultra, claiming the industry’s first 800G AI Ethernet network interface card (NIC). The Ethernet NIC, adopting the open Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) specification, can interconnect hundreds of thousands of…
Power design tools ease system development
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) launches its ADI Power Studio, a family of products that offers advanced modeling, component recommendations, and efficiency analysis with simulation to help streamline power management design and optimization. ADI…
Broadcom delivers Wi-Fi 8 chips for AI
Broadcom Inc. claims the industry’s first Wi-Fi 8 silicon solutions for the broadband wireless edge, including residential gateways, enterprise access points, and smart mobile clients. The company also announced the availability of its Wi-Fi…
Microchip launches PCIe Gen 6 switches
Microchip Technology Inc. expands its Switchtec PCIe family with its next-generation Switchtec Gen 6 PCIe fanout switches, supporting up to 160 lanes for high-density AI systems. Claiming the industry’s first PCIe Gen 6 switches manufactured…
Amps x Volts = Watts
Analog topologies abound for converting current to voltage, voltage to current, voltage to frequency, and frequency to voltage, among other conversions.
Figure 1 joins the flock while singing a somewhat different tune. This current, voltage,…
Inside Walmart’s onn. 4K Plus: A streaming device with a hidden bonus
Walmart onn. coverage
Walmart’s onn. (or is it now just “onn”?) line of streaming media boxes and sticks are regularly represented here at Brian’s Brain, for several good reasons. They’re robustly featured, notably more economical…
Tesla’s wireless-power “dream” gets closer to reality—maybe
You are likely at least slightly aware of the work that famed engineer, scientist, and researcher Nikola Tesla did in the early 1900s in his futile attempt to wirelessly transmit usable power via a 200-foot tower. The project is described extensively…
Broadcom debuts 102.4-Tbits/s CPO Ethernet switch
Broadcom Inc. launches the Tomahawk 6 – Davisson (TH6-Davisson), the company’s third-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch, delivering the bandwidth, efficiency, and reliability for next-generation AI networks. The TH6-Davisson…
